The fourth annual New England Underground Film Festival will take place on Oct. 11 at the University of Hartford, presenting eight short films and two feature-length movies. The shorts are a mixed bag of dramas, documentaries, music stories and comedies,...

Orlando Christian Prep (6-0) and Central Florida Christian (6-1) rolled to football wins last week to become the first teams to clinch playoff berths within the Sunshine State Athletic Conference.
OCP wrapped up the Beach Division title with a 68-14...

Joel G. Hill, who had taught at what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was active in Episcopal affairs, died Sept. 18 at her Westminster, Vt., home of cancer.
The former Hagerstown resident was 78.
The daughter of Van...

Circuit court clerks must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite their personal religious beliefs, according to the Virginia attorney general's office.
A week after same-sex couples were allowed to marry across the state, one of many...

Local Catholic clergy and lay people are watching to see what comes out of a gathering of bishops at the Vatican on family issues that continues through the end of the week.
About 200 bishops from around the world have been gathering at an assembly...

A protest sprung up at Hobby Lobby in Burbank Saturday, roughly three months after an initial series of demonstrations that followed the opening of the craft chain on Victory Boulevard.
The protest, hosted by the Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los...

Garden designs come in all shapes and sizes, but all too often native plants get overlooked in the process. Many diverse plants grow happily in our forests, but did you know that they can seamlessly become part of your landscape, blending beautifully into...

Cardinals and bishops summoned by Pope Francis to the Vatican to discuss the modern family have said that homosexuals should be welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church and that heterosexual civil unions have “positive” aspects.
Without...